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“My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.”

Mother Parent Determination Advertising Single Parent

Author:Felicity Jones

“My mother was in charge of language. My father had never really learned to read - he could manage slowly, with his fingers on the line, but he had left school at twelve and gone to work at the Liverpool docks. Before he was twelve, no one had bothered to read to him. His own father had been a drunk who often took his small son to the pub with him, left him outside, staggered out hours later and walked home, and forgot my dad, asleep in a doorway. Dad loved Mrs Winterson reading out loud - and I did too. She always stood up while we two sat down, and it was intimate and impressive all at the same time. She read the Bible every night for half an hour, starting at the beginning, and making her way through all sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments. When she got to her favourite bit, the Book of Revelation, and the Apocalypse, and everyone being exploded and the Devil in the bottomless pit, she gave us all a week off to think about things. Then she started again, Genesis Chapter One. 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...' It seemed to me to be a lot of work to make a whole planet, a whole universe, and blow it up, but that is one of the problems with the literal-minded versions of Christianity; why look after the planet when you know it is all going to end in pieces?”

Adoption Bible Reading

Author:Jeanette Winterson

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no one wanted to be her friend. Everyone wanted to be soft cooing sympathies. Very reasonable pigeons. No one had the time & our solution to it was to buy shinier watches. We were enamored with what our wrists could declare. My mother was in the hospital & I didn't want to be her friend. Typical son. Tall latte, short tale, bad plot, great wifi in the atypical café. My mother was in the hospital & she didn't want to be her friend. She wanted to be the family grocery list. Low-fat yogurt, firm tofu. She didn't trust my father to be it. You always forget something, she said, even when I do the list for you. Even then.”

Death Suffering Loss Grief Illness Mothers Families Sons

Author:Chen Chen

Source: When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

“My mother was in the hospital & I didn't want to be her friend. She wanted to be the family grocery list. Low-fat yogurt, firm tofu. She didn't trust my father to be it. You always forget something, she said. even when I do the list for you. Even then.”

Mother Family Trust Hospital

Author:Chen Chen

“My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."”

Looks Kind Mother Like You Late Female Who You Are Defined Sixty Seventies Emancipation

Author:Felicity Jones

“My mother was, in the tradition of parents, quite a complicated and contradictory human being. Moralistic but a devout lover of pleasure (food, music, the aesthetics of nature). Deeply religious but seemingly as comforted by singing a secular chanson as by prayer. A lover of the natural world who was visibly anxious every time she left the castle. Fragile, but also though and stubborn. I never knew how many of her oddities had sprung from grief and how many from her own inherent nature. "There is not one blade of grass, there is no colour in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice," my mother told me once, shortly after arriving in England.”

Life Happiness Life Philosophy Life And Living

Author:Matt Haig

Source: How to Stop Time

“My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.”

Firsts Mother Areas Independent Western Drivers Massachusetts

Author:Julia Child

“My mother was into folk-rock when I was little, so I think of folk-rock as the norm from which everything else deviates. Of course, that's completely preposterous, but that's how I grew up. What is the norm by which to judge wordiness? I think I'm less wordy than Madonna.”

Thinking Mother Judging Norm

Author:Stephin Merritt

“My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.”

Mother Father House Grew Grew Up Jazz Opera

Author:Chaka Khan

“My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.”

Ifs Mother Forgiving Ireland Superstitious Tautology

Author:Rosalind Russell

Source: Life is a Banquet

“My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.”

Sometimes Helping Mother Busy Sewing Another Woman

Author:James Weldon Johnson

Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.”

Home Mother Hate Journey I Hate Planes Unexpected Crash Stay At Home Plane Crashes Airplane Crashes

Author:Linda McCartney

“My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.”

Kind Mother Taught Forgiving Teresa Neighbourhoods

Author:Tommy Hilfiger

“My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.”

Love Life Humor Funny Romance Mother Sex Sister Like A Sister

Author:Emo Philips

“My mother was like, "What did they teach you?", and I had never talked about that [sex-ed] so I freaked out.”

Mother Sex Teach

Author:Jen Kirkman

“My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.”

Might Mother Stars Imagination Four Week Taste Dinner Resilience Cooks Vegetables Frozen Onions Garlic Spam

Author:Andre Dubus

“My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.”

World Age Mother Understanding Greater Needed Married Built All Time Recognition Idealism Cnn

Author:Troy Garity

“My mother was my beauty icon my whole life.”

Whole Mother Whole Life Icons

Author:Gigi Hadid

“My mother was my best friend and confidante.”

Mother My Best Friend

Author:Renata Tebaldi

“My mother was my first jealous lover.”

Firsts Mother Lovers Jealous

Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“My mother was my Girl Scout leader, and George's mother was his Cub Scout leader. In fact, that's when some say her hair turned white.”

Facts Mother Girl Politics White Leader Hair My Girl Cubs Girl Scout Cub Scout

Author:Laura Bush

“My mother was my greatest fan.”

Mother Fans

Author:Judy Blume

“My mother was never comfortable with the idea I was a sexual being, even before I made explicit this sexuality involved being facedown between a woman's legs.”

Sex Sexuality Queer Lesbian Sexual

Author:Valentine Glass

Source: Jarring Sex

“My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.'”

Ifs Said Enough Mother Behinds Watches Dad My Dad Cooks Restaurants Dine Dine In

Author:Jesse McCartney

“My mother was obviously never there to take the blame she deserved. She left me to absorb it all in her place. She was far too busy in her own world, that incidentally revolved around herself. I'm pretty sure she dated a new guy every few months for most of my childhood. Some would last longer and show up again later after disappearing for a while, like the last day of a cold or flu before you start feeling better.”

Relationships Family Dating Parents Mothers Boyfriends

Author:Ashly Lorenzana

Source: Speed Needles

“My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to be raised differently than my brother and sister were. My parents went through the whole sixties rebellion with my brother and sister. But I didn't feel like I had to rebel because I didn't have anyone telling me I couldn't do something. I never went into that parents-as-enemies stage.”

Feels Made Whole Mother Father Parent Enemy Stage Brother Safe Okay Raised My Brother Agreement Rebellion Rebel Sixty Brothers And Sisters Playing It Safe

Author:Julie Taymor

“My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.”

Years Children Littles School America Mother Girl Next Father Lost Left Parent Bed Seven Nine Hungry Better Life

Author:Marco Rubio

“My mother was one of the most beautiful women, I have to say, of her generation. She was absolutely lovely. She was a very, extremely sensitive, Irish actress. She came from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and she came to London, and she was sort of discovered by several people.”

People Beautiful Mother Generations Actresses London Lovely Sensitive Ireland Beautiful Women Northern Ireland Belfast

Author:Angela Lansbury

“My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.”

Mother Father Passionate Dominant Stubborn

Author:Hugh Leonard

“My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.”

Men Mother Father Cold Old Man Abusive

Author:S. E. Hinton

“My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.”

Persons Self Mother Ultimate Focused Practicals Pragmatic

Author:Ursula Burns

“My mother was predominately a stay-at-home Mom.”

Home Mother Mom Stay At Home Stay At Home Mom

Author:Andrew Rannells

“My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.”

Mother Cases

Author:Wesley Snipes

“My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.”

Made Mother Bits Hated Sensible Strict

Author:Mark Ronson

“My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.”

Mind Mother Responsibility Obligation Protestants

Author:Sylvia Kristel

“My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So, growing up, I was always looking for my connection. I've found myself praying before meals, before bed; there's always been this gratitude for things that are bigger than me.”

Mother Found Growing Up Growing Praying Gratitude Bed Connections Bigger Catholic Raised Meals Strict Intimidation Midwest

Author:Alicia Keys

“My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.”

Bigs Mother House Band

Author:Suzy Bogguss

“My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.”

Mother Hell Wonderful Tough

Author:David Copperfield

“My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.”

Dream Mother Projects Partners Enablers

Author:Diane Keaton

“My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.”

Said Mother Youth

Author:Tiger Woods

“My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.”

Mother Reading Left Can Do Underwear Silk Proust

Author:Jane Birkin

“My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.”

Mother Remarkable Sarcastic Delightful Trust Me

Author:Kevin Spacey

“My mother was so beautiful, she really was a a wonderful person. Always walking like a queen. Like she owned the world. Maybe I took something from her.”

World Persons Beautiful Mother Wonderful Walking Queens Wonderful Person

Author:Sophia Loren

“My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.”

Made Humor Funny Mother Father House Proud Bed

Author:Chic Murray

“My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply.”

Made Wanted Joy Mother Rooms Enthusiasm Lit Very Deep Great Joy

Author:Meryl Streep

“My mother was superb. Even when I said to her, when I was nineteen, oh, I'm going to India. Her immediate reaction was, oh yes dear, and when are you leaving? She didn't say, oh how could you leave me, your mother? Or wait a bit dear until you get a bit older and you know your own mind. She just said, well, when are you going? And that was because she loved me, not because she didn't love me.”

Knows Mind Wells Said Mother Bits Waiting India Leaving Dear Reactions Leaving Me Nineteen Superb Yes Dear

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to.”

World Wanted Mother Knowing Right Thing Supportive Deep Down

Author:Albert Brooks

“my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.”

Hands Mother Water Morning Air Taught Concepts Red Appreciate Satisfaction Colour Autumn Small Things Fresh Air

Author:Anchee Min

Source: Empress Orchid

“My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look with more than your eyes.”

Truth Eyes

Author:Alice Hoffman

Source: Incantation

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